UNSW Press

Science provides detail to the tapestry of life and offers another dimension to share and enjoy.

From feared as a menace to championed by conservationists and surfers, the author of Sydney Beaches looks at our shifting attitudes to sharks.

Barry Pearce, emeritus curator at the Art Gallery of NSW, surveys two of his favourite paintings by Grace Cossington Smith.

Anne Schofield unlocks the cabinets in her exclusive Sydney shop in Queen Street, Woollahra and reveals the favourite pieces of jewellery she has bought, sold and collected over 50 years.

Shortlist announced for the The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing, 2014

Jane McAdam and Fiona Chong reject spin and panic to provide a straightforward and balanced account of Australia's asylum policies in light of international law.

A million Australians went to Bali last year, following the millions of others who have made their way across Asia over the past century.

In November 1941 HMAS Sydney, the pride of Australia's wartime fleet, and its crew of 645 disappeared without a trace off the Western Australian coast.

Australia is spending more than any other nation on Great War commemoration, including those nations that were major combatants. Carolyn Holbrook, author of Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography, asks why.

This compelling diary provides an intimate glimpse into the day-to-day workings of a foreign minister and canny politician, who happens to be a fine writer as well.

Well-known Australians – mavericks, activists, movers and shakers – crack open their own ASIO files and read what the state's security apparatus said about them.

Archaeopteryx, the ‘first bird’, has fascinated people since the first mostly complete specimen was dug out of a quarry in Bavaria in 1861. But what colour were its famous feathers?